Hint: The exact polar opposite of normal.

Writer's Block

Ingredients:

  • A story containing a decent amount of words, unfinished. 

    Notice that your writing must be of a certain length, otherwise it does not qualify as a story but remains merely, or barely, an idea. Being unfinished is also critical to the creating of a Writer's Block. Finished stories, when combined with other ingredients and processed accordingly, will come out as something we refer to as an original draft.

 

  • Depression, or feeling depressed for a period of time. 

    Although it is supported by scientific research that depression works out best, sometimes we run into situations where we do not have a medically certificated depression at hand, even in the contemporary world where half of the population of any developed countries are diagnosed with mentally crippling syndromes. A home-made depression may work if you are a somewhat recognised writer who insist on only creating high brow literature. We suggest that, however, if you have started writing for more than three months and have yet to observe any symptoms of depression, writing may not be the best career choice for you. Under the circumstance that you have been writing for less than three months and are unable to find a suitable depression, you may use the feeling of being depressed for at least a month as a substitution.

 

  • Excuses. 

    The positive of not having an editor is that you don't need to find excuses for not writing. The negative is that you are not a professional writer and therefore don't get paid for what you write. To create an illusion of somebody is expecting to read your stories, you will have to find some excuses, even if yourself would be the only person that you can give them to. Excuses range from life threatening global events to insignificant everyday inconvenience. It is preferred that you refer to something that actually involves you, but when those excuses are unavailable you could just use anything. Though people may wonder how something so irrelevant like your neighbour's bright red Mercedes can physically stop you from writing, you, as a writer who is privileged to proclaim your sensitivity towards humanity, can always say, "It symbolises the oppression of the order of capitalism, hence has an impact on my mood."

 

  • Procrastination. 

    A small but important ingredient in this recipe. You don't need a lot of it, just enough so that you stop writing to let the process start going.


Steps:

  1. Procrastinate. Stop writing your unfinished story, no matter you do or do not have a clue about what's going to happen next in it. Remember you can always say no to your own thoughts, so no, the story is definitely NOT going that way.


  2. Add excuses to your depression, or feeling of being depressed. Mix them well and let them sit for a while, until they start to team up against your mental wellbeing. You feel personally attacked by the universe and know that nothing is going anywhere in your life. You might even die tomorrow, who knows, and it may be one of the good things that seldomly happen to you.


  3. Reread your unfinished story from the first line. Stop every thousand words to criticise your awkward writing style and repetition of vocabularies. Find all the possible plot holes and logic errors. Question the motivation of your characters and the lack of a character arc. You have found out that your story is way too flat and yet quite messy, but you have written so many words now you cannot simply forego the idea. You are stuck, unable to keep writing yet unable to give up.


  4. Hopelessly sit in front of your choice of writing device and keep procrastinating. We trust that you have enough tactics to distract yourself so that you won't resume writing any time soon.


Congratulations! Now you have successfully created yourself a Writer's Block. Savour it as you can, as it would turn sour within the period of 30 minutes to five hours (varies from writer to writer) and leave you brooding for several days, until you finally find a way to fix it (usually by sitting in front of your choice of writing device for an excessive amount of time at ungodly hours). We advise against starting to write anything new within this window, as you may accidentally create one too many Writer's Block to form a Bloque.


(Highly inspired by Francis Leibowitz)


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